Open Exercise Database
An open and community driven collection of structured exercise data that is transparently curated and professionally validated.
The Open Exercise Database provides a shared and openly accessible foundation of physical activity exercises for research, digital health applications, and community use.
A collaborative, structured, and extendable exercise repository for everyone!
What is the Open Exercise Database?
The Open Exercise Database is an open and structured repository of physical activity exercises. It is designed to support researchers, clinicians, developers, and practitioners who need transparent, reusable, and machine readable exercise definitions.
Learn moreStructured and machine readable
Exercises are represented using a consistent JSON based structure that makes them easy to reuse across studies, systems, and applications.
Open and versioned
All data is publicly available on GitHub with full version history and transparent change tracking.
Community driven
Anyone can propose new exercises or improvements through an open contribution process.
Professionally validated
A dedicated validation track highlights exercises that have been reviewed and approved by professionals.
Validation and governance
To balance openness with data quality, the Open Exercise Database maintains two clearly separated tracks.
Community exercises
Exercises contributed by the community that follow the shared structure but have not yet undergone professional validation. These entries remain openly visible and versioned.
Validated exercises
Exercises that have been reviewed and approved by professionals. These entries are clearly marked and intended for use in research, clinical, or production contexts.
Both tracks are publicly accessible and maintained with full transparency.
How contributions work
Submit an exercise
Contributors propose a new exercise or improvement using a shared structured format.
Community collection
The exercise is added to the community collection and becomes openly visible.
Professional review
Selected entries are reviewed by professionals for accuracy, safety, and clarity.
Validated promotion
Approved exercises are promoted to the validated collection.